Graham Yost

Graham Yost

Graham John Yost (born September 5, 1959) is a Canadian film and television screenwriter. His most famous works are the hit 1994 film Speed, Broken Arrow, and Hard Rain.

He has also written for the television series Herman's Head and Band of Brothers. In 2002, he created the widely acclaimed, yet short lived drama series Boomtown. He was also the creator of the short-lived NBC drama Raines. He teamed up with Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, along with two of his fellow Boomtown writers Michelle Ashford and Larry Andries, to write and direct episodes of the HBO miniseries The Pacific. In 2010, Yost is the creator and executive producer on the series Justified, which premiered on FX in March 2010.

Born in Etobicoke, he is the son of Canadian television personality Elwy Yost, the longtime host of the public broadcaster TVOntario's Saturday Night at the Movies. He lives in California with his family.